Posted on 08/25/2015 2:37:48 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore is campaigning that her high school change its name away from a Confederate general.
JEB Stuart High School in Fairfax, Virginia, was founded in 1959 and allegedly named in honor of the Civil War commander in apparent protest at the Supreme Court's decision to integrate schools.
Moore and her high school friend-turned-producer Bruce Cohen are demanding that the school rename itself, and started a Change.org petition that had already amassed more than 28,000 signatures as of Monday night.
The school formerly included the Confederate flag on its basketball court and in its school symbol. Moore said that students should not have to be embarrassed about a name with ties to slavery.
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Does she have a dog in the hunt?
Maybe not. She grew up in the South, but her father was in the Army and they lived on bases. Her parents grew up in New Jersey and her mother had been born in Scotland (hence the red hair, I guess).
It was an excellent movie but not good history at all.
Jeb Stuart was a great man, like Benedict Arnold.
Julliane Moore, meh.
She must have a >>great<< plastic surgeon because she looks better at 52 then she did at 32.
WB, then scream “I’M A F’N REPUBLICAN, YOU LIBERAL STRUMPET!!!” at her. Then leave.
Nothing at all against either profession. I could have said any occupation. In fact, I doubt Julianne Moore could handle the considerable concentration or responsibility needed to succeed in either line of employment. She is just another low IQ actress who thinks her opinion is superior to others.
I try not to watch movies with her in it. Hard to do since she has been in some wonderful ones. I can’t stand her because she admitted she aborted one her babies and was “proud” of her descision. How can you be proud of that? How?
Never heard of her, but I sure know Stuart!
Smug and self-satisfied.
In any event, Julianne Moore can take her silly impertinent Hollyweird nonsense and put it where the sun shineth not. Acting in a few movies does not make her fit to muck the stalls of Stuart's horses.
I like it.
hehehehehehehehehe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I bet she wishes those were brains ....
1st Cavalry Regiment, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory. Operations against the Cheyenne and against rabid abolitionists terrorizing the territory. Wounded July 1857 in skirmish with Cheyenne during a saber charge under his commander Sumner.
While seeking re-appointment with the Quartermaster dept, in Washington, DC, he volunteered to accompany R.E. Lee as aide-de-camp to Harper’s Ferry to secure the arsenal there. A man calling himself Isaac Smith led the group holding the arsenal. From his experiences fighting in Bleeding Kansas, he recognized and identified “”Old Ossawatomie Brown”—ie. John Brown.
It is a matter of public record. Not “the movies” of fantasist looney visions.
I don't see any evidence that Stuart was fighting John Brown in Kansas.
The army arrived after the Battle of Black Jack to restore order, but I don't see where it took sides or participated in the warfare.
I imagine there are those who would say that Nathan Bedford Forrest was better.
1rst Regimental records. Stuart promoted in Dec. 1855, and they were employed keeping the peace, until Brown left in Oct/Nov. 1856, having lost a son and whole lot else.
Regiment had run-ins with Brown and others, as well as pro-slavery people throughout 1856. During 1856 is when Brown and the command had several contacts with Brown. This was how Stuart was able to ID Brown in 1859 at Harper’s Ferry.
By 1857, Brown is gone and the regiment is more engaged in suppression of the Cheyenne.
She attended the school many years ago.
He was a Democrat.
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